Why don´t you do compareable sales on your own stores, but on others?

To me, this simply doesn´t make any sense! You benefit most by sales on your own store but still don´t do sales although you do them on other sites like Humble or Steam. WHY?!

(oh, and BTW: What the hell happend to the GOG-Version?!)

It's just customary to do sales on Steam and the humble store, everyone can't wait for Steam sales; they're almost obligated to set up a sale for it.

Anyway I'd assume the GOG version must still exist, as people have bought it, right?

Passers by will buy it when on sale on steam, their own website has no passers by.

That´s right, but no explanation: Uber store has one big purpouse and that´s to be the place where you buy PA keys for your friends you wanna recommend PA. But that´s pretty hard if they´ve got such a heavy price offset!

Don't know about you, but for me the Uber Store is at $11 currently, which works out a little cheaper than Steam here in Europe. I've noticed they often follow the Steam sales with their pricing.

PA as of yet has not been released on GOG.COM so there is no gog version in existence. I do think this will happen when the game has been deemed finalized by gog staff which is probably still long time away. Unfortunately they only sell games that are finished and that get only occasional balance and bug patches which is clearly not the case with PA since the game is still in development.

Well then someone lied to me. I was told that DRM-FREE was what got games accepted.

If this is also some sort of necesary hoop to jump through, then I can care less, it is GOG's loss.

What will the next requirement randomly needed? To guess how many marbles in a jar? Get a tattoo on my butt?

store.uberent.com sells it for 11$ right now. After a little conversion that is roughly the same price as steam lists right now for me.

Drm-free is yes one of the basic gog requierements and gog never in its history released games that weren't finished cause the users would burn down the store with countless posts otherweise although this seems to be changing with the release of M&B Viking DLC. Also drm-free is a lot more specified there then what is written on the internet and this game more or less falls under gogs drm definition until its is going to be reworked so that is always going to automatically start offline server by default and multiplayer only after going to multiplayer tab for Ubers online lobby - this is basically what is need for gog release or gog users will burn the forums down with this game is drm posts - I quarantee you that.

I think with the automatic setting (which is the default) PA does start a local server if it can't connect to the internet.
So all that is missing is an option in the launcher so pc-noobs can start it without logging in.

The problem for gog release is that the game would have to launch default in offline mode even if there is internet connection. I can tell you there are people there who check this stuff and would scream bloody murder if they saw internet connection being made when you start the game. Just pointing out how it is there.

Well it does start in "offline mode" (whatever that even is supposed to be, the game is basically a browser, so the UI always will go talk to the internet if it can) if you start pa.exe directly. The missing bit is the launcher that asks for a login before it starts the game. Not sure how it works together with steam in offline mode.

Go the community forums, and petition for the game. The fans of Alpha Centauri Alien Cross fire, successfully petitioned for its release on GOG. Be warned, the GOG community is not as civil as the steam community.


http://www.gog.com/wishlist

Its not really necessary since there was a big poll made about 1 to 2 years ago for release of Planetary Annihilation and it was about 70-80% positive so everything lies on gog.com what it want's to do. Here the link to survey data on gog: http://www.gog.com/news/new_gaming_options_survey_results

Also as you said gog has no moderation whatsoever in their forums.

Steam forums are 0 percent civil.

There can be less than 0? If so, I want my ice cream next time to be at -56 degrees kelvin. That would be badass.

Ya, 70-80% positive on PA being added. 70% negative on "sell multiplayer focused games, (not MMOs), but which have persistent online features which are tracked on the developer's end (Matchmaking, statistics, achievements, etc) and which require 3rd party accounts (i.e. a login for the developer's online service).

This isn´t the way the poll was done. PA was presented AFTER those general question as a "And what do you want when those theoretical questions are united in one game?"
And community voting was obviously still on PAs side!

Hey, that´s new and cool! Good to see that Uber changed it so fast!

Couldn't give less a damn about steam sales. Will not let that infectious drm even touch my pc. What they could do though is put up sales on Amazon...

sale unrelated

Well seeing as you can play offline it's not that bad.

Anyway you completely missed my point, I didn't say you should get steam, I said they go with steam sales because it's customary to do so, they're almost obligated to cut the price down.

Plus it (could) mean more sales.